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Direct linkVicente, Santiago; Verschaffel, Lieven; Sánchez, Rosario; Múñez, David – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2022
The success or failure of education systems in promoting student problem-solving skills depends on attitudinal, political, and pedagogical variables. Among these variables, the design of mathematics textbooks is thought to partially explain why students from high-achieving countries show better problem-solving ability in international assessments.…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Word Problems (Mathematics), Foreign Countries, Content Analysis
Vicente, Santiago; Sánchez, Rosario; Verschaffel, Lieven – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2020
Singaporean children are the best performers on international achievement tests in mathematics (i.e. the TIMSS). Their excellent results could be due at least partly to certain characteristics of the textbooks used there (Oates 2014). Therefore, these materials could be taken as a good benchmark to describe and evaluate aspects of the textbooks of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mathematics Achievement, Textbooks, Word Problems (Mathematics)
